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Quest for chocolate -- Success!
Apr. 18th, 2010 08:31 amMore important than finding a chocolate shop, I found a grocery store! It is three times the size of a typical European grocery store -- most of them are the size of a small 7-11, and this one appeared to be three shops strung together.
Mouthwash! Yes! My hideously overpriced new bottle of Listerine should last me until Thursday, or beyond if necessary.
Their chocolate section was QUITE respectably sized. I went a little crazy. I bought my favorite Swedish cookie (Anna's Chocolate and Mint thins, almost impossible to find in the US). I bought a container of chocolate mint chips. Think "potato chips" not "baking chips." I bought something called "Noir, Extra Dark chocolate 72% with cocoa cream filling." I have no idea what it is -- not a bar. And then finally I bought a simple 70% cocoa chocolate bar. Don't get your hopes up. These won't last the week and only the bar would fit in my luggage anyway.
You know, just enough to get me through the night. (Christine Lavin)
And my timing must have been good because there was a manager-type who had to unlock the door to let me out. Who closes a grocery store at 1pm? But that would explain why all of the employees were glaring at me. I thought it was my foreign air.
Packing win: I packed a reusable grocery bag to serve as my "personal item" on planes if they grow stubborn about the weight of my backpack (which is electronics-inevitably over every airline's weight limit). It would also double as a bag to carry stuff into work, though it is not very professional in appearance (my backpack is not a briefcase either, so no serious loss there). Listening to a tour group chat at breakfast this morning leads me to conclude that Poland is like Denmark in their attitudes toward grocery bags: you must pay for them. So when the check-out person mimed a grocery bag at me, I was able to pull my own bag off my belt loop! Yes! Crazy PREPARED foreigner!
Mouthwash! Yes! My hideously overpriced new bottle of Listerine should last me until Thursday, or beyond if necessary.
Their chocolate section was QUITE respectably sized. I went a little crazy. I bought my favorite Swedish cookie (Anna's Chocolate and Mint thins, almost impossible to find in the US). I bought a container of chocolate mint chips. Think "potato chips" not "baking chips." I bought something called "Noir, Extra Dark chocolate 72% with cocoa cream filling." I have no idea what it is -- not a bar. And then finally I bought a simple 70% cocoa chocolate bar. Don't get your hopes up. These won't last the week and only the bar would fit in my luggage anyway.
You know, just enough to get me through the night. (Christine Lavin)
And my timing must have been good because there was a manager-type who had to unlock the door to let me out. Who closes a grocery store at 1pm? But that would explain why all of the employees were glaring at me. I thought it was my foreign air.
Packing win: I packed a reusable grocery bag to serve as my "personal item" on planes if they grow stubborn about the weight of my backpack (which is electronics-inevitably over every airline's weight limit). It would also double as a bag to carry stuff into work, though it is not very professional in appearance (my backpack is not a briefcase either, so no serious loss there). Listening to a tour group chat at breakfast this morning leads me to conclude that Poland is like Denmark in their attitudes toward grocery bags: you must pay for them. So when the check-out person mimed a grocery bag at me, I was able to pull my own bag off my belt loop! Yes! Crazy PREPARED foreigner!
